An Institute for Museum & Library Services grant request.
Submitted April 1998

Project To Create and Expand Digital Databases for
Three Collections in the University of Hawai'i at Manoa Libraries

Narrative

	Introduction
	Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Photo Collection
	Hawaiian Language Newspapers on microfilm
	Hawai'i War Records Depository Photographs

Hawai'i War Records Depository Photographs
Hawai'i War Records Depository (HWRD) was created in 1943, by the first territorial legislature to meet after the Army declared martial law in the islands on December 7, 1941. With great foresight, the legislature specified the collection was to document the effects of the war upon Hawai'i and its populace. It appropriated funds for the collection of materials to be stored at the University of Hawai'i and for personnel to process, preserve and catalog the materials.

HWRD holds approximately 1,000 newspaper photographs clearly identified as being from the Honolulu Star Bulletin and 325 photographs clearly identified as being from the Honolulu Advertiser, representing primary material from the two English-language Honolulu newspapers. Because the newspapers have lost most of their old photographs, these prints frequently are the only copies extant from the time of the War. This project will convert the existing finding aid from paper to a web-based system and make the list of all HWRD photographs available on the World Wide Web. This project will also identify, select and (pending review by the papers and resolution of copyright issues) digitize HWRD photographs created by the photographic staff of the Star Bulletin and the Advertiser.

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